Quotes About Action

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

En dan, anderen zouden het wel in mijn plaats ordenen. Anderen zouden wel handelend beginnen optreden. De anderen waren immers zo, steeds iets bewerkstelligend, steeds handelend aan het optreden. Ik kwam achterna, en voerde uit wat mij bevolen werd. Ik leefde als het ware niet in dit drukke en te zenuwachtige leven, maar bij dingen die voorbij waren, en die ik nu pas in mijn geest begon te ordenen.

You have only one life, make the most of it

So, execution is really the critical part of a successful strategy. Getting it done, getting it done right, getting it done better than the next person is far more important than dreaming up new visions of the future.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and then increasing commitment to and engagement in anti-racism actions

What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy

Responsibility is our ability to respond to a situation. We always have a choice.

I trust the process of life. Only right and good action is taking place in my life.

If you want to move to another room, you have to get up and move step by step in that direction. Just sitting in your chair and demanding that you be in the other room will not work. It's the same thing. We all want our problem to be over with, but we don't want to do the small things that will add up to the solution.

You can act yourself into a new way of thinking more easily than you can think yourself into a new way of acting.

KIDNEYS: I seek only good everywhere. Right action is taking place. I am fulfilled. BLADDER: I release the old and welcome the new.

Two of the men tiptoed to the pile of brush. One of them

They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

Consequences," said Gamache. "We must always consider the consequences of our actions. Or inaction. It won't necessarily change what we do, but we need to be aware of the effect.

He'd seen it in others, the consequences of failing to choose companions wisely. One slightly immoral person was a problem. Two together was a catastrophe. All it took was a fateful meeting. A person who told you your meanest desires, your basest thoughts, weren't so bad. In fact, he shared them. Then the unthinkable was thought. And planned for. And put into action.

Thinking is an action,

The funny thing about murder is that the act is often committed decades before the actual action. Something happens, and it leads, inexorably, to death many years later. A bad seed is planted. It's like those old horror films from the Hammer studios, of the monster, not running, never running, but walking without pause, without thought or mercy, toward its victim. Murder is often like that. It starts way far off.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful.